Bed-pan



model. W. P. MORGAN.-

BED PAN. N0. Z57,74O. Patented May 9, 1882.

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WALTER F. MORGAN, OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

BED-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,740, dated May 9, 1882, Application filed June 27, 1881. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER F. MORGAN, of Leavenworth, Kansas, have invented a new a and usefullmprovelnentin Bed-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a permanent cushion attachment, a rooved socket to hold the same in position,an a soft-rubber evacuating-tube.

Heretofore the pan in common use, made of porcelain or earthenware, has frequently been found to produce an uncomfortable and painful pressure upon the sacral region, more especially complained of by ohrouicinvalids and irritable, sensitive patients, which the said cushion is designed to obviate. In using the hard bed-pan it has been found impracticable to supply a temporary cushion without decided inconvenience. The soft pans which have been in the market for a number of years do not seem to meetthe popular demand because of their expensiveness and lack of durability. My cushion is permanently attached to a grooved socket in the tail of the pan, is made of soft rubber stuffed with curled hair, and is of such form as to protect the sacrum from uncomfortable pressure, and may be readily understood by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 represents a side view of the pan and cushion together. A is the shoulder for attaching the evacuating-tube 5 B, the nozzle, and G the cushion in place.

Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on the line as as, Fig. 1, illustrating the rubber cushion within the socket. When stutt'ed the cushion will present a more rounded appearance than is shown by the drawings-z. 0., on the upper surface. The socket cast in the tail of the pan, Fig. 2, has its sides ridged and grooved or undermined, is halfan inch in depth, and of the exact form and size of the cushion. The design of the groove in the cushion adapted to the ridge in the socket is to hold the cushion securely when sprungintoits socket. The upper lip of the grooved edges of the cushion, as

well as the other two borders, project sufti-' ciently to thoroughly protect the parts from (Us agreeable or painful pressure.

Fig. 3 shows the under surface of the cushion, with the fissure for inserting the curled hair.

The aperture for the evacuating-tube is sup plied with a nicely-fitting rubber stopper, to be used whenever the pan is required for irrigating the vagina and uterus. For ordinary injections of the bowels the evacuating-tube need notbe used. Wheninjectinglarge quantities of water the evacuating-tube prevents the disagreeable and sometimes painful necessity of frequent removals and reintroductions of the pan under the patient. The tube also adapts the pan to use in post-partem hemorrhage, &c.

I selected rubber as the best material of which to make the cushion because of its softness, durability, cleanliness and imperviousness, the last quality rendering it incapable of the absorption of the contagious elements of disease.

I claim- A porcelain bed-pan provided with a socket into which is secured apermanentrubber cushion, in combination with a soft iubber evacuating-tube, substantially as described.

WALTER F. MORGAN. Witnesses:

SAML. PHILLIPS, E. K. MORGAN. 

